The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-21

ment II the law against the dealers,
for every watChfu man who passes :
the saloon can he witness against
them IN its violations third: Tho '
payment of large share of the taxes !
of the government, upon the sound ,
economic principle that evil pursuit
shonld bear the heaviest burdens;
fourth: The drawing of lines certain.
~ and clearly between moral and I'm.
moral pursuits. practices and habits,
so that no man can play the hypocrite
without just exposure.
The present seductive surroundings
of saloons are against public policy,
and they will be abated by aproper
enforcement of the law passed by the
last legislature. Tho wcll-known ne
&c sity of enforcing their employees 10 |
testify against the proprietors ought /
to he obvia,cd by MAKING 1t possible /
for all di,intcrested citizens 10 appear /
| in court rs witnesses of their wrongs. I
The present large lax which they are
now forced to pay ought not to be /
shifted on the All valorcm list agsin>t
/ tho property holders in more COM
mendablc pursuits. And men VINO
wear flowers on their noses ~ u result
of sucking srou Il quart houses and
drug stores should be afforded a de-
cent chance to avoid absolute hypoc-
risv-the greatest curse to genuine
moral reform In every land.
The revenue to the state for the two
years ending June 80, / Ss6, from in.
toXicating liquors amounted to one
million, twenty-iour thousand five
hundred dollars, (Sl, O2l50o) The ex-
pcn>c to the state growing out of
criminal prosecutions, embracing the
fees of district and county attorneys,
sherills, clerks, witnesses, criminal
judges. etc.. for the two years ending
February 3s. 1887, aggregate the
amount of nine hundred and fifty
eight thousand, seven hundred and
thirty.thrCc dollars and sevcnty-tour
cents, (Sg5S, $500. by this it vii hc
observed that occupation taxes from
this one traffic paid an excess of S65-
5000 over all the expense to the
state from al criminal source for u
like period The comptroller fur
ui~hrd me these figures this morning
aud they are correct. The reason they
are not given for the same periods Is
that the general business year closes
with the government February IS.
while the one for the settlement of
occur alton taxes end on June 30 Of
each year
The total uisl- during the two year
Guiding January !, 1887, of the three
oflcu-cs of arson burglary and thcft
were 30l5: while those of all other
offences combined including murder,
q rape, robbery. embe2Ilemct, pejury,
aud assaults to murder, to rape and
to rCb, aggregate 1872.
These ligure~ arc authentic, and are
given YOU without special comment,
80 that you can draw your own con
illusions. after asking yourself "lf
: the occupation taXas on the liquor
traffic pay more than the whole eN-
: pense of criminal cases, what good
reason can there he for abolishlng
! this revenue aud placing the burden
upon other source" II will hardly
b DO to say that crime will cease for the
% lack OF whisky, tor men Will sin
b, drunk or sober nor will IL answc" e.
! say that liquor will fail to lind
its way into Texas. for the facts stare
u the world in the face that, under
l, more rigid laws than this proposed
- amendment, Maine with populat on
20 $4,000 pays II revenue on whisky 10
= the Unltet state government OF
II f26, 55i0i annually, that Iowa with
e 100000 people pays ~, S,662i0 O
II ear, and that Kansas, the prime pat
n tern of Toxa, latter day morals with
II "A population of l,iUO,OOO pays also
- annually to the national government
from the same source S9i,97L52. but
c Texas, with her 100000 so.caIlcc
- "a a.
e on whisky of 1893, 1896 To the lDitct
= State, annually.
- Compare these figures. Furnished
y me to-day Toy reliable rev
l. cuue collector here, and then nsl
d yourself whats the mattert' Don
10 ray that the revenue officers have no
u done Their duty in our state Tor IN
l. people hear witness to their eXtrcm
W vigilance and untlring activity in thi
'r line
Pr 1t might do to dodge these figure
:, by saying that those moral states hay
IL "A great many scientists who apply tn
p stun aud large crowds OF mechanic
II who are lavish in its use, and IA yer
d -ickly population that cannot d
II without it; but TO say that whisk
floats by them or that it is less used II
C. either OF those STATES than IN Texas, il
g, proportion 10 population, is simpl
" illogical and untrue.
ID So palpable failure to enforce tn,
at liquor laws within this small, circum
le scribed limits Of moral Maine, wo
~ mans rights Kansas and busy Iowa
e. with the aid of all the superior form
Ic OF civil government in the keeping o
r. their moral zealots and skillful lead
l. ers, at least speaks badly for this poll
# tica quick-step now being 80 artIull
le taken under the cloak of temperate
III reform on the pure, udsullied soil o
chvarOus Texas.
l. IT, for no stronger roasons, thi
V, amendment ought to be defeated upol
y the grounds that 1t would scatter tn
1t traffic and use OF intoxicsnts and fore
1t them into low dives and high place
Ic alike, without The attendance Of Law